EP1295468A1 - Preventing doming phenomena - Google Patents

Preventing doming phenomena

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EP1295468A1
EP1295468A1 EP01984024A EP01984024A EP1295468A1 EP 1295468 A1 EP1295468 A1 EP 1295468A1 EP 01984024 A EP01984024 A EP 01984024A EP 01984024 A EP01984024 A EP 01984024A EP 1295468 A1 EP1295468 A1 EP 1295468A1
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Michel W. Nieuwenhuizen
Dirk Y. W. Van Leeuwen
Kathleen L. L. Van Damme
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    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
    • H04N5/44—Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards
    • H04N5/57—Control of contrast or brightness
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    • H04N5/44—Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards
    • H04N5/57—Control of contrast or brightness
    • H04N5/59—Control of contrast or brightness in dependence upon beam current of cathode ray tube
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    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
    • H04N5/14—Picture signal circuitry for video frequency region
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Abstract

In a method of preventing doming phenomena, luminance histogram distribution values are obtained (10) from a luminance signal, the various luminance histogram distribution values are processed and normalized (12), the luminance histogram distribution values are processed (16) to correct for at least the actual contrast and brightness settings to obtain corrected histogram data, a total beam current is predicted (18) from the corrected histogram data, and a correction signal is derived (20) from the predicted total beam current and making said correction signal effective in the processing and normalizing step (12). <IMAGE>

Description

Preventing doming phenomena
The invention relates to a method and device for preventing doming phenomena. More specifically, the invention relates to circuitry for preventing doming phenomena in a television receiver.
EP-A-0,525,976 describes a prior art intensity control circuit destined to provide a usual intensity correction and has nothing to do with the prevention of dooming phenomena. For details about the functioning of this intensity control circuit the attention is drawn to said publication.
Doming phenomena may occur in case a section of the shadow mask of a cathode ray picture tube is irradiated with high intensity electron beams causing partial distortion of the shadow mask whereby a "dome" is formed in the mask. The effect thereof is mis-coloring which is very annoying. Because of the geometry of the tube the influence of the doming phenomena is rather strong near the periphery of the screen where the electron beam strikes the shadow mask under a relatively large deflection angle. Electron beams with high intensity are generated in correspondence to a local high luminance signal. To prevent doming phenomena the luminance signal has to be controlled such that the intensity of the resulting electron beam is limited in least in those regions of the screen where doming is likely to occur.
Circuits which are specifically destined to prevent doming phenomena are already known from the prior art. An example is described in EP-A-0,354,518. The circuit described therein comprises means for processing the luminance signal including a low pass filter for filtering out only the low frequent components of the luminance signal which in a first comparator are compared with a first reference signal related to the horizontal and vertical modulation signals resulting into a control signal for a charge/discharge circuit which will tend to charge if there are areas on the screen where the luminance will be so high that doming phenomena will appear. The output of this charge/discharge circuit is compared with a second reference level signal resulting into a correction signal, which is used to adapt either the contrast or the luminance of the screen to counter-act any doming phenomena. In this prior art circuit the first reference signal is generated such that the allowed luminance level is rather large at the center of the screen and is relatively small near the sides of the screen, taking thereby into account that the doming phenomena will appear predominantly near the edges of the screen and not in the center thereof.
It is, inter alia, an object of the invention to provide an improved doming phenomena prevention. To this end, the invention provides a doming phenomena prevention as defined in the independent claims. Advantageous embodiments are defined in the dependent claims. In a method of preventing doming phenomena in accordance with a first aspect of the present invention, luminance histogram distribution values are obtained from a luminance signal, the various luminance histogram distribution values are processed and normalized, the luminance histogram distribution values are processed to correct for at least actual contrast and brightness settings to obtain corrected histogram data, a beam current is predicted from the corrected histogram data, and a correction signal is derived from the predicted beam current and making said correction signal effective in the processing and normalizing step. Preferably, local doming is prevented by determining local histograms to correct local beam currents for at least two windows (32, 34 in Fig. 2).
Advantageously, a doming phenomena preventing circuit in accordance with the present invention makes predominantly use of a processor performing calculations on luminance data which are already available in the a histogram memory forming part of the normal intensity control circuit. In many cases a processor is already present and if said processor has a sufficient spare capacity the doming preventing circuit according to the invention can be realized without adding any substantial hardware to the television receiver circuit. Loading a suitable program into the already present processor to calculate a correction signal from the available data would then solve a major part of the problem.
These and other aspects of the invention will be apparent from and elucidated with reference to the embodiments described hereinafter.
In the drawings:
Fig. 1 illustrates a rather schematic diagram of circuitry according to the invention;
Fig. 2 illustrates schematically a screen with the windows in which the circuit according the invention is active; and Fig. 3 illustrates a more elaborate circuitry providing a lot of details.
The circuit in Fig. 1 comprises three parts 2, 4 and 6, part 2 being a conventional intensity correction device, part 4 being a section of a normal television receiver circuit comprising the user accessible setting unit for influencing contrast and brightness, and part 6 comprising the dooming phenomena preventing circuitry according to the invention. As indicated above part 2 in Fig. 1 shows the construction of a conventional intensity correction device. The reference numeral 10 denotes a histogram memory for obtaining luminance distribution of an input luminance signal Y, 12 denotes a look-up table operating circuit for performing cumulation of the histogram and normalizing respective data so that the maximum cumulative frequency become coincident with a maximum value of an output luminance signal, 14 denotes a look-up table memory for storing the data normalized by the look-up table operating circuit 12 and permitting reading out of a correction signal corresponding to a luminance level of the input signal. It is remarked that using a look-up table memory is only one of many possible ways to obtain a luminance ratio change, such as a piece- wise linear technique or a direct application of a non-linear function.
It is assumed in Fig. 1 that the luminance signal Y is an analog signal which has to be converted into a digital signal by the A/D converter 22. If the luminance signal is already in digital form the converter 22 can be eliminated. The functioning of the sub-circuit in part 2 is extensively described in the above-mentioned EP-A-0,354,418 to which the attention is drawn for further reference. The circuit in Fig. 1 has a second part 4 covering a brightness and contrast controller 24 that includes a contrast controller 26 and a brightness controller 28. The corrected output signal of brightness and contrast controller 24 is supplied to an RGB amplifier 30 to bring the signal at a level suited for activating the actual cathode ray tube control elements.
The third part 6 in Fig. 1 covers an emulated brightness and contrast control circuit 16 receiving input values from the contrast controller 26 and the brightness controller 28 to subject the output signal from the histogram memory 10 to the same corrections as the luminance signal from the look up table 14. After applying said corrections, a summing circuit 18 takes care of providing a weighted sum of all values received. The obtained sum is related to the actual total beam current. The obtained sum is further processed into a correction value in the circuit 20. The obtained correction value is transferred back to the look up table operating circuit 12 to implement the correction. The circuit in Fig. 1 finally comprises a tandem switch SI, S2. In the illustrated positions these switches take care that the circuit in part 2 only functions as a normal luminance control circuit of the type known from the prior art. If both switches are thrown into the other position the circuit in part 2 is combined with the circuit in part 4 and functions as doming preventing circuit. It will be clear that the switches SI, S2 are operated at a suitable pace such that on the one hand the histogram data will be refreshed regularly with a sufficient repetition frequency whereas on the other hand at least part of the histogram data is at the right moments available to calculate a correction value an making this calculated value effective for preventing doming phenomena.
Before describing the more elaborate circuit illustrated in Fig. 3 first the attention is drawn to Fig. 2 illustrating schematically the zones on a television screen where doming phenomena are likely to occur. For obtaining information about possible doming phenomena it is not necessary to guard the whole screen because doming phenomena will occur predominantly in a zone at some distance from the center of the screen where the angle between the electron beam and the shadow mask in front of the screen is substantially smaller then 90 degrees. To avoid unnecessary measurements and processing it is therefor preferred that only parts of the luminance signal related to specific areas on the screen, called windows, are processed by said processing means. More specifically said windows are a left and right window covering elongated vertical zones near the respective right and left edges of the screen.
In Fig. 2 two windows 32 and 34 are defined on the screen 36 each having a height equal to the height of the television screen 36. The width of window 32 is indicated as Wl and the width of window 34 is indicated as W2. It is not necessary that Wl = W2. The object of the circuit according to the invention is now to measure the total beam current impinging onto the CRT mask covering each of the windows 32 and 34. If the calculated or estimated total beam value in a window is higher than a predetermined limit, so that it is very- likely that doming phenomena will occur, a correction signal can be sent to the luminance control circuit decreasing the luminance on the circuit as a whole and preventing thereby the doming phenomena.
Windows 33 and 35 serve to measure whether the thermic-mechanic compensation of the CRT actually does what it is supposed to do in order to prevent local doming. Suppose, the whole left half of the screen is white. In that case, region 33 will be white so that the thermically active suspension of the shadow mask (normally made from a bimetal) becomes hot too, thereby compensating the local doming in area 32 nearly completely. Again it is essential that this combination takes place, because otherwise a false alarm would be given too often. This compensation system makes sense with CRTs having a shadow mask made of iron. For CRTs having a shadow mask made of invar, this compensation is not required, because for this type of display, the shadow mask is not thermically compensated by means of a bimetal suspension, but by choosing a material having a low expansion coefficient.
Now further to Fig. 3. In Fig. 3 the histogram intensity control circuit comprises the histogram measurement memory 40, the processor 42 and the look up table 44. The way in which these components operate is already described in detail above and will not be explained any further. The output signal of the look up table 44 forms the input signal of a horizontal/vertical-zoom circuit 46, a contrast circuit 48, a brightness circuit 50, an RGB amplifier 52 and a CRT γ-correction circuit 54. All these circuits can be found in prior art television receivers and do not require any further explanation.
The luminance signal Y is supplied through an AGC-circuit 56 to both the histogram of measurement memory 40 as well as to the lookup table memory 44. The output of the histogram memory 40 is connected to a switch S 10 (corresponding to SI in Fig. 1). Switch S10 is coupled to a further five-position switch S12 and both switches are in tandem controlled by a window generator 58 that is controlled by a scene change detector 59. If the circuit needs data belonging to the left doming area window 32, the right doming area window 34, the left overscan window 33, or the right overscan window 35, then the window generator 58 takes care that the switches S10 and S 12 are brought into the corresponding position. If none of these data is necessary then the switches are brought to the most lower position in which the circuits 40, 42 and 44 are together functioning as described in the prior art publication. '
If we assume that S10, S12 is in one of its four uppermost positions, then the output signal of histogram memory 40 is first of all supplied to a histogram correction circuit 60. In fact the circuit 60 emulates the dynamic contrast function which is performed in circuit 44. Thereafter the corrected signal is supplied to a circuit 62 where contrast and brightness correction are performed based on signals received from the contrast control circuit 48 and the brightness control circuit 50. A further signal supplied to the circuit 62 is derived from a beam current limiter 63. As such the beam current limiter 63 is a circuit known from the prior art. The beam current limiter 63 takes care that under no circumstances the beam current reaches a higher level than a predetermined limit level. If necessary, the value at the input of circuit 62 is corrected in case the beam current limiter 63 provides an indication therefore.
The RGB-amplifier 52 has of course its influence on the actual luminance signal but in the emulation circuit this influence is in fact a constant factor so that no connection between the RGB amplifier 52 and the correction circuit 62 is necessary.
The influence of the CRT γ-correction circuit 54 is translated into the circuit 64 emulating the γ -correction.
The values at the output of the γ -correction circuit 64 are sent in a summing circuit 66 which at the output in fact supplies an estimation of the total beam current of the measured window: beam current = Σ weight (bucket) x histogram (bucket) wherein weight (n) is the beam current of each pixel in the bucket number n and histogram (n) is the amount of pixels of the picture that fall inside it.
The beam current calculated so far depends on the window size because the total amount of pixels measured by the histogram changes linearly with the window size. Since the window changes due to 50Hz/60Hz reception conditions a correction has to be added for which a window size compensation circuit 68 is added.
The prediction calculated so far tends to underestimate the doming effect of the beam current in cases where one part of the window is light and another is dark. As an example take a scene with a light sky on the top 25% of the screen and a dark landscape on the rest. The average beam current of a window will not be high, being dominated by the large dark area. Still the danger of local doming is large in the sky part. To compensate for this a black/white balance correction circuit 70 is added where a correction is performed based on the light/dark distribution. Depending on the selected window the output signal of the black/white balance correction circuit 70 is supplied through switch S12 further to either the left part prediction circuit 72 or to the right part pre-diction circuit 74. These prediction circuits control the calculate correction circuit 76 which supplies the ultimate correction value to the histogram algorithm processor 42. Instead of to the histogram algorithm processor 42 the correction signal could also be transferred back to the contrast controller 48 as indicated in Fig. 3.
As set out above, a preferred embodiment of the invention provides an electronic local doming prevention (ELDP) in which local histograms are determined at several locations, and in which a prediction of the beam current is carried out in predetermined areas of the picture. This embodiment is based on the idea to derive a prediction of the local doming of the shadow mask from the measurement of the local luminance histogram. Compared to prior art histogram measurements using only one measurement window to achieve a dynamic contrast control, in this embodiment a switch is made between five windows, viz. one dynamic contrast control window plus four windows 32-35 for electronic local doming prevention. Once a histogram of an ELDP window is measured, software processing calculates the power load of the shadow mask from it.
It should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiments illustrate rather than limit the invention, and that those skilled in the art will be able to design many alternative embodiments without departing from the scope of the appended claims. In the claims, any reference signs placed between parentheses shall not be construed as limiting the claim. The word "comprising" does not exclude the presence of elements or steps other than those listed in a claim. The word "a" or "an" preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements. The invention can be implemented by means of hardware comprising several distinct elements, and by means of a suitably programmed computer. In the device claim enumerating several means, several of these means can be embodied by one and the same item of hardware. The mere fact that certain measures are recited in mutually different dependent claims does not indicate that a combination of these measures cannot be used to advantage.

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CLAIMS:
1. A method of preventing doming phenomena, the method comprising: obtaining (10; 40) luminance histogram distribution values from a luminance signal; processing and normalizing (12; 42) the various luminance histogram distribution values; processing (16; 62) the luminance histogram distribution values to correct for at least actual contrast and brightness settings to obtain corrected histogram data; furnishing (18; 66) a predicted beam current from said corrected histogram data; and deriving (20; 76) a correction signal from the predicted beam current and making said correction signal effective in said processing and normalizing step (12; 42).
2. A circuit for preventing doming phenomena, the circuit comprising: a histogram memory (10; 40) for obtaining a luminance distribution from a luminance signal; an operating circuit (12; 42) for processing and normalizing the various values in said histogram memory (10; 40); means (16; 62) for processing the histogram data to correct for at least actual contrast and brightness settings to obtain corrected data; means (18; 66) for furnishing a predicted beam current from said corrected data; and means (20; 76) for deriving a correction signal from the predicted beam current and making said correction signal effective in said operating circuit (12).
3. A circuit according to claim 2, wherein only the luminance signals corresponding to predetermined areas (33, 32, 34, 35) on the screen are taken into account to obtain local predictions of the beam current based on local histogram measurements.
4. A circuit according to claim 3, wherein the predetermined areas (32, 34) cover elongated windows with relatively small horizontal dimension and relatively large vertical dimension at a predetermined distance from the right or left edge respectively of the screen.
5. A circuit according to claim 4, wherein further predetermined areas (33, 35) cover elongated windows with relatively small horizontal dimension and relatively large vertical dimension adjacent to the extreme right or left edge respectively of the screen to compensate for a thermic-mechanic compensation of local doming.
6. A circuit according to claim 2, wherein a switch (S 1 ; S 10) is installed between the histogram memory (10; 40) and the histogram data processing means (16; 66) to connect the output of the histogram memory (10; 40) either with said histogram data processing means (16; 66) or with said operating circuit (12; 42).
7. A circuit according to claim 2, wherein said histogram data processing means
(16; 66) comprise means for correcting the data in agreement with intensity variations instructed by a look up table memory (14; 44) that stores the processed and normalized histogram values.
8. A circuit according to claim 2, wherein the means (18; 66) for predicting the beam current comprise a summing circuit in which the values, received from the histogram memory (10; 40), after multiplication with a weight factor, are summed to obtain a weighted sum.
9. A circuit according to claim 8, wherein the weighted sum is processed in a window size compensation circuit (68) providing compensation for 50Hz/60Hz receiver circuits.
10. A circuit according to claim 8, wherein the weighted sum is further processed in a black/white compensation circuit (70) providing compensation for relatively large white surfaces within a window.
11. A television receiver comprising a cathode ray tube on the screen of which a picture is produced by means of an electron beam under control of an electronic receiver circuit having intensity, contrast and brightness control means, said intensity control circuit being equipped with a local doming prevention circuit as claimed in claim 2.
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